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EXHIBIT 4.1
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THE PMI GROUP, INC.
TO
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
Trustee
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Indenture
Dated as of November __, 1996
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$100,000,000
___% Notes Due ______________, 2006
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Certain Sections of this Indenture relating to
Sections 310 through 318 of the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939:
Trust Indenture Indenture
Act Section Section
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Section310(a)(1) ..................................................... 609
(a)(2) ..................................................... 609
(a)(3) ..................................................... Not Applicable
(a)(4) ..................................................... Not Applicable
(b) ..................................................... 608
610
Section 311(a) ..................................................... 613
(b) ..................................................... 613
Section 312(a) ..................................................... 701
702(a)
(b) ..................................................... 702(b)
(c) ..................................................... 702(c)
Section 313(a) ..................................................... 703(a)
(b) ..................................................... 703(a)
(c) ..................................................... 703(a)
(d) ..................................................... 703(b)
Section 314(a) ..................................................... 704
(a)(4) ..................................................... 101
1004
(b) ..................................................... Not Applicable
(c)(1) ..................................................... 102
(c)(2) ..................................................... 102
(c)(3) ..................................................... Not Applicable
(d) ..................................................... Not Applicable
(e) ..................................................... 102
Section 315(a) ..................................................... 601
(b) ..................................................... 602
(c) ..................................................... 601
(d) ..................................................... 601
(e) ..................................................... 514
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NOTE: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be
a part of the Indenture.
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Trust Indenture Indenture
Act Section Section
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Section 316(a) ..................................................... 101
(a)(1)(A) ..................................................... 502
512
(a)(1)(B) ..................................................... 513
(a)(2) ..................................................... Not Applicable
(b) ..................................................... 508
(c) ..................................................... 104(c)
Section 317(a)(1) ..................................................... 503
(a)(2) ..................................................... 504
(b) ..................................................... 1003
Section 318(a) ..................................................... 107
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NOTE: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be
a part of the Indenture.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Parties.................................................................................................1
Recitals of the Company.................................................................................1
ARTICLE ONE
Definitions and Other Provisions
of General Application
SECTION 101. Definitions............................................................. 1
Act................................................................ 2
Affiliate.......................................................... 2
Board of Directors................................................. 2
Board Resolution................................................... 2
Business Day....................................................... 2
Capital Stock...................................................... 2
Commission......................................................... 2
Company............................................................ 2
Company Request.................................................... 2
Company Order...................................................... 2
Control............................................................ 3
Corporate Trust Office............................................. 3
Corporation........................................................ 3
Covenant Defeasance................................................ 3
Defaulted Interest................................................. 3
Defeasance......................................................... 3
Depositary......................................................... 3
Designated Subsidiary.............................................. 3
Event of Default................................................... 3
Exchange Act....................................................... 3
Expiration Date.................................................... 3
Global Note........................................................ 3
Holder............................................................. 3
Indenture.......................................................... 3
Interest Payment Date.............................................. 4
Lien............................................................... 4
Maturity........................................................... 4
Note Register...................................................... 4
Note Registrar..................................................... 4
Officers' Certificate.............................................. 4
Opinion of Counsel................................................. 4
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Outstanding........................................................ 4
Paying Agent....................................................... 5
Person............................................................. 5
Predecessor Note................................................... 5
Regular Record Date................................................ 5
Responsible Officer................................................ 5
Special Record Date................................................ 5
Stated Maturity.................................................... 5
Subsidiary......................................................... 5
Trustee............................................................ 5
Trust Indenture Act................................................ 6
U.S. Government Obligation......................................... 6
Vice President..................................................... 6
Voting Stock....................................................... 6
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary............................................ 6
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions............................... 6
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee............................. 7
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates...................................... 7
SECTION 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.............................. 9
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.......................................... 9
SECTION 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.................................. 10
SECTION 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents........................... 10
SECTION 109. Successors and Assigns............................................. 10
SECTION 110. Separability Clause................................................ 10
SECTION 111. Benefits of Indenture.............................................. 10
SECTION 112. Governing Law...................................................... 11
SECTION 113. Legal Holidays..................................................... 11
ARTICLE TWO
Note Forms
SECTION 201. Forms Generally.................................................... 11
SECTION 202. Form of Face of Note............................................... 11
SECTION 203. Form of Reverse of Note............................................ 14
SECTION 204. Form of Trustee's Certificate of
Authentication..................................................... 15
SECTION 205. Form of Legend for Global Notes.................................... 16
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ARTICLE THREE
The Notes
SECTION 301. Title and Terms.................................................... 16
SECTION 302. Denominations...................................................... 17
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery
and Dating......................................................... 17
SECTION 304. Temporary Notes.................................................... 17
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and
Exchange; Global Notes............................................. 18
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Notes........................ 19
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved..................... 20
SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners.............................................. 21
SECTION 309. Cancellation....................................................... 21
SECTION 310. Computation of Interest............................................ 21
ARTICLE FOUR
Satisfaction and Discharge
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture............................ 22
SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money......................................... 23
ARTICLE FIVE
Remedies
SECTION 501. Events of Default.................................................. 23
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission
and Annulment...................................................... 24
SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for
Enforcement by Trustee............................................. 25
SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim................................... 26
SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without
Possession of Notes................................................ 26
SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected..................................... 27
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits................................................ 27
SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive
Principal and Interest............................................. 28
SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies................................. 28
SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative..................................... 28
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SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver....................................... 28
SECTION 512. Control by Holders................................................. 28
SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults............................................ 29
SECTION 514. Undertaking for Costs.............................................. 29
SECTION 515. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws................................... 29
ARTICLE SIX
The Trustee
SECTION 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities................................ 30
SECTION 602. Notice of Defaults................................................. 30
SECTION 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.......................................... 30
SECTION 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or
Issuance of Notes.................................................. 31
SECTION 605. May Hold Notes..................................................... 31
SECTION 606. Money Held in Trust................................................ 31
SECTION 607. Compensation and Reimbursement..................................... 32
SECTION 608. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests............................ 32
SECTION 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility............................ 32
SECTION 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment
of Successor....................................................... 32
SECTION 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor............................. 34
SECTION 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation
or Succession to Business.......................................... 34
SECTION 613. Preferential Collection of Claims
Against Company.................................................... 34
ARTICLE SEVEN
Holders' Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company
SECTION 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and
Addresses of Holders............................................... 35
SECTION 702. Preservation of Information; Communications
to Holders......................................................... 35
SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee................................................. 35
SECTION 704. Reports by Company................................................. 36
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ARTICLE EIGHT
Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease
SECTION 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only
on Certain Terms................................................... 36
SECTION 802. Successor Substituted.............................................. 37
ARTICLE NINE
Supplemental Indentures
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without
Consent of Holders................................................. 37
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures with
Consent of Holders................................................. 38
SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures............................... 39
SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.................................. 39
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act................................ 39
SECTION 906. Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures...................... 39
ARTICLE TEN
Covenants
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal and Interest................................ 39
SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.................................. 40
SECTION 1003. Money for Note Payments
to Be Held in Trust.............................................. 40
SECTION 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default.............................. 41
SECTION 1005. Corporate Existence.............................................. 41
SECTION 1006. Maintenance of Properties........................................ 42
SECTION 1007. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims................................ 42
SECTION 1008. Limitations on Liens and Dispositions of
Capital Stock of a Designated Subsidiary......................... 43
SECTION 1009. Waiver of Certain Covenants...................................... 43
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ARTICLE ELEVEN
Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance
SECTION 1101. Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or
Covenant Defeasance.............................................. 44
SECTION 1102. Defeasance and Discharge......................................... 44
SECTION 1103. Covenant Defeasance.............................................. 44
SECTION 1104. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance....................................................... 45
SECTION 1105. Deposited Money and U.S. Government
Obligations to Be Held in Trust;
Miscellaneous Provisions......................................... 46
SECTION 1106. Reinstatement.................................................... 47
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TESTIMONIUM............................................................................................ 49
SIGNATURES ............................................................................................ 49
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INDENTURE, dated as of November __, 1996, between The PMI
Group, Inc., a corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the
State of Delaware (herein called the "Company"), having its principal office at
000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000, and The Bank of New
York, a banking corporation duly organized and existing under the laws of the
State of New York, as Trustee (herein called the "Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the creation of an issue of
its ____% Notes Due _____________, 2006 (herein called the "Notes") of
substantially the tenor and amount hereinafter set forth, and to provide
therefor the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture.
All things necessary to make the Notes, when executed by the
Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder and duly issued by the
Company, the valid obligations of the Company, and to make this Indenture a
valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with their and its terms, have
been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Notes
by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed, for the equal and proportionate
benefit of all Holders of the Notes, as follows:
ARTICLE ONE
Definitions and Other Provisions
of General Application
SECTION 101. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise
expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings
assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the
singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the
meanings assigned to them therein;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles, and, except as otherwise herein expressly
provided, the term "generally accepted accounting principles" with
respect to any computation required or permitted
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hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as are generally
accepted at the date of such computation; and
(4) the words "herein", "hereof" and "hereunder" and other
words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to
any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
"Act", when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning
specified in Section 104.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person
directly or indirectly Controlling or Controlled by or under direct or indirect
common Control with such specified Person; and the term "Affiliated" shall have
the meaning correlative to the foregoing.
"Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of
the Company or any duly authorized committee of that board.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted
by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday which is not a day on which banking institutions in San Francisco,
California or The City of New York are authorized or obligated by law or
executive order to close.
"Capital Stock" of any Person means any and all shares,
interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate
stock or other equity participations, including partnership interests, whether
general or limited, of such Person.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as
from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any
time after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and
performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the
body performing such duties at such time.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor Person.
"Company Request" or "Company Order" means a written request
or order signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, its
Vice Chairman of the Board, its President or a Vice President, and by its
Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and
delivered to the Trustee.
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"Control" when used with respect to any specified Person means
the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or
indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or
otherwise; and the terms "Controlling" and "Controlled" shall have meanings
correlative to the foregoing.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal corporate trust
office of the Trustee in The City of New York at which at any particular time
its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office, on the date
hereof, is located at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00 Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000.
"Corporation" means a corporation, association, company,
joint-stock company or business trust.
"Covenant Defeasance" has the meaning specified in Section
1103.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
"Defeasance" has the meaning specified in Section 1102.
"Depositary" means The Depository Trust Company or, if The
Depository Trust Company shall cease to be a clearing agency registered under
the Exchange Act, any other clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act
that is designated as the successor Depositary in a Company Order delivered to
the Trustee.
"Designated Subsidiary" means PMI Mortgage Insurance Co., an
Arizona corporation, so long as it remains a Subsidiary, or any Subsidiary which
is a successor thereto.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 501.
"Exchange Act" refers to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
as it may be amended and any successor act thereto.
"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 104(c).
"Global Note" means a Note that evidences all or part of the
Notes and bears the legend set forth in Section 205.
"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Note is registered in
the Note Register.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed or as
it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof,
including, for all purposes of this instrument and any such supplemental
indenture, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a
part of and govern this instrument and any such supplemental indenture,
respectively.
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"Interest Payment Date" means the Stated Maturity of an
instalment of interest on the Notes.
"Lien" means a mortgage, pledge, security interest or other
encumbrance of any nature.
"Maturity", when used with respect to any Note, means the date
on which the principal of such Note becomes due and payable as therein or herein
provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration or
otherwise.
"Note Register" and "Note Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 305.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the
Chairman of the Board, a Vice Chairman of the Board, the President or a Vice
President, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an
Assistant Secretary, of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee. One of the
officers signing an Officers' Certificate given pursuant to Section 1004 shall
be the principal executive, financial or accounting officer of the Company.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who
may be inside counsel for the Company, and who shall be acceptable to the
Trustee.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to Notes, means, as of
the date of determination, all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture, except:
(i) Notes theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Notes for whose payment money in the necessary
amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying
Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in
trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent)
for the Holders of such Notes; and
(iii) Notes in exchange for or in lieu of which other
Notes have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture,
other than any such Notes in respect of which there shall have been
presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Notes are
held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Notes are valid
obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Notes have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Notes owned by
the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes or any Affiliate of the Company
or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding,
except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying
upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or
waiver, only Notes which the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so
disregarded.
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Notes so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as
Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the
pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Notes and that the pledgee is not
the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes or any Affiliate of the Company
or of such other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to
pay the principal of or interest on any Notes on behalf of the Company.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, limited liability company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Predecessor Note" of any particular Note means every previous
Note evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Note; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Note
authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in exchange for or in lieu of a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same
debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest
Payment Date means the __________ or _____________ (whether or not a Business
Day), as the case may be, next preceding such Interest Payment Date.
"Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Trustee,
means the chairman or any vice-chairman of the board of directors, the chairman
or any vice-chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors, the
chairman of the trust committee, the president, any vice president, the
secretary, any assistant secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer, the
cashier, any assistant cashier, any trust officer or assistant trust officer,
the controller or any assistant controller or any other officer of the Trustee
customarily performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above
designated officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust
matter, any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his
knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted
Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 307.
"Stated Maturity", when used with respect to any Note or any
instalment of interest thereon, means the date specified in such Note as the
fixed date on which the principal of such Note or such instalment of interest is
due and payable.
"Subsidiary" means a corporation more than 50% of the
outstanding Voting Stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the
Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more
other Subsidiaries.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Trustee" shall mean such successor Trustee.
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"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as
in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed; provided,
however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 is amended after such
date, "Trust Indenture Act" means, to the extent required by any such amendment,
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
"U.S. Government Obligation" has the meaning specified in
Section 1104.
"Vice President", when used with respect to the Company or the
Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a
word or words added before or after the title "vice president".
"Voting Stock" means Capital Stock which ordinarily has voting
power for the election of directors (or, in the case of a Person that is not a
corporation, persons performing similar functions), whether at all times or only
so long as no senior class of Capital Stock has such voting power by reason of
any contingency.
"Wholly-Owned Subsidiary" of any Person means a Subsidiary of
such Person all of the outstanding Capital Stock or other ownership interests of
which (other than directors' qualifying shares) shall at the time be owned by
such Person or by one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person or by
such Person and one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person.
SECTION 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee
to take any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall
furnish to the Trustee such certificates and opinions as may be required under
the Trust Indenture Act. Each such certificate or opinion shall be given in the
form of an Officers' Certificate, if to be given by an officer of the Company,
or an Opinion of Counsel, if to be given by counsel, and shall comply with the
requirements of the Trust Indenture Act and any other requirement set forth in
this Indenture.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate
or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions
herein relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions
contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual,
he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable
him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant
or condition has been complied with; and
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(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 103. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified
by, or covered by an opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that
all such matters be certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one document, but one
such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one
or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify
or give an opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of,
or representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as
it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or
more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or
other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated
and form one instrument.
SECTION 104. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken
by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly
appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such
action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered
to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. Such
instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced
thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing
such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of
a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this
Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and
the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any
such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by
law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the
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execution thereof. Where such execution is by a signer acting in a capacity
other than his individual capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also
constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the execution
of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the
same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
(c) The Company may set any day as a record date for the
purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Notes, entitled to make or
take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken
by Holders of Notes, provided that the Company may not set a record date for,
and the provisions of this paragraph shall not apply with respect to the giving
or making of any notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in the
next paragraph. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the
Holders of Outstanding Notes on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be
entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders
after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective
hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders
of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Notes on such record date.
Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company from setting
a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set
pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall
automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect),
and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any
action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Notes
on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant
to this paragraph, the Company, at its own expense, shall cause notice of such
record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date
to be given to the Trustee in writing and to each Holder of Notes in the manner
set forth in Section 106.
The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose
of determining the Holders of Outstanding Notes entitled to join in the giving
or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of acceleration
referred to in Xxxxxxx 000, (xxx) any request to institute proceedings referred
to in Section 507(2) or (iv) any direction referred to in Section 512. If any
record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Notes
on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to join in such
notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or not such Holders remain
Holders after such record date; provided that no such action shall be effective
hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders
of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Notes on such record date.
Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting
a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set
pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall
automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect),
and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any
action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding Notes
on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant
to this paragraph, the Trustee, at the Company's expense shall cause notice of
such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the applicable Expiration
Date to be given to the Company in writing and to each Holder of Notes in the
manner set forth in Section 106.
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With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section,
the party hereto which sets such record date may designate any day as the
"Expiration Date" and from time to time may change the Expiration Date to any
earlier or later day; provided that no such change shall be effective unless
notice of the proposed new Expiration Date is given to the other party hereto in
writing, and to each Holder of Notes in the manner set forth in Section 106, on
or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If any Expiration Date is not
designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the
party hereto which set such record date shall be deemed to have initially
designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with
respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided
in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be
later than the 180th day after the applicable record date.
(d) The ownership of Notes shall be proved by the Note
Register.
(e) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Note shall bind every future
Holder of the same Note and the Holder of every Note issued upon the
registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in
respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the
Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon
such Note.
SECTION 105. Notices, Etc., to Trustee and Company.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by
this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or
filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office,
Attention: Corporate Trust Trustee Administration, or
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage
prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal
office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any
other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the
Company.
SECTION 106. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any
event, such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to
each Holder affected by such event, at his address as it appears in the Note
Register, not later than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than the
earliest date (if any), prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any case
where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such
notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall
affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to
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other Holders. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such
notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice,
either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of
such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but
such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action
taken in reliance upon such waiver.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or
by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by
mail, then such notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee
shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
SECTION 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
If any provision hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with a
provision of the Trust Indenture Act that is required under such Act to be a
part of and govern this Indenture, the latter provision shall control. If any
provision of this Indenture modifies or excludes any provision of the Trust
Indenture Act that may be so modified or excluded, the latter provision shall be
deemed to apply to this Indenture as so modified or to be excluded, as the case
may be.
SECTION 108. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of
Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
SECTION 109. Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Indenture by the Company
shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 110. Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes shall
be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability
of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired
thereby.
SECTION 111. Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Notes, express or implied,
shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors
hereunder, and the Holders of Notes, any benefit or any legal or equitable
right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
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SECTION 112. Governing Law.
This Indenture and the Notes shall be governed by and
construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York without regard
to conflict of laws principles thereof.
SECTION 113. Legal Holidays.
In any case where any Interest Payment Date or the Stated
Maturity of any Note shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any
other provision of this Indenture or of the Notes) payment of interest or
principal need not be made on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding
Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment
Date, or at the Stated Maturity, provided that no interest shall accrue for the
period from and after such Interest Payment Date or Stated Maturity, as the case
may be.
ARTICLE TWO
Note Forms
SECTION 201. Forms Generally.
The Notes and the Trustee's certificates of authentication
shall be in substantially the forms set forth in this Article, with such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are
required or permitted by this Indenture, and may have such letters, numbers or
other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as
may be required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or the
Depositary or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers
executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of the Notes.
The definitive Notes shall be printed, lithographed or
engraved or produced by any combination of these methods on steel engraved
borders or may be produced in any other manner permitted by the rules of any
securities exchange on which the Notes may be listed, all as determined by the
officers executing such Notes, as evidenced by their execution of such Notes.
SECTION 202. Form of Face of Note.
THE PMI GROUP, INC.
___% Note Due _________, 2006
No. __________ $________
CUSIP No.________
The PMI Group, a corporation duly organized and existing under
the laws of Delaware (herein called the "Company", which term includes any
successor Person under the
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Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay
to __________________, or registered assigns, the principal sum of
_____________________ Dollars on ________, 2006, and to pay interest thereon
from October __, 1996 or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which
interest has been paid or duly provided for, semi-annually on ____________ and
___________ in each year, commencing ___________, at the rate of ___% per annum,
until the principal hereof is paid or made available for payment. The interest
so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment
Date will, as provided in such Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name
this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of
business on the Regular Record Date for such interest, which shall be the
_________ or __________ (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be,
next preceding such Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually
paid or duly provided for will forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on
such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this
Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business
on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed
by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of Notes not less than
10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other
lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange
on which the Notes may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by
such exchange, all as more fully provided in said Indenture. Payment of the
principal of and interest on this Note will be made at the office or agency of
the Company maintained for that purpose in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of
New York, in such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the
time of payment is legal tender for payment of public and private debts [in the
case of a Note that is not a Global Note insert -- ; provided, however, that at
the option of the Company payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the
address of the Person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Note
Register].
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this
Note set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all
purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
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Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature,
this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid
or obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to
be duly executed under its corporate seal.
THE PMI GROUP, INC.
By______________________________________
Attest:
_____________________________
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SECTION 203. Form of Reverse of Note.
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the
Company designated as its __% Note Due ______________, 2006 (herein called the
"Notes"), limited in aggregate principal amount to $100,000,000, issued and to
be issued under an Indenture, dated as of October __, 1996 (herein called the
"Indenture"), between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Trustee (herein
called the "Trustee", which term includes any successor trustee under the
Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference
is hereby made for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights,
duties and immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of
the Notes and of the terms upon which the Notes are, and are to be,
authenticated and delivered.
The Notes are not subject to redemption prior to maturity and
do not have the benefit of any sinking fund obligations.
The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time
of the entire indebtedness of this Note or certain restrictive covenants and
Events of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with
certain conditions set forth in the Indenture.
If an Event of Default shall occur and be continuing, the
principal of all the Notes may be declared or become due and payable in the
manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and
obligations of the Company and the rights of the Holders of the Notes under the
Indenture at any time by the Company and the Trustee with the consent of the
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time
Outstanding. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding, on
behalf of the Holders of all the Notes, to waive compliance by the Company with
certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults under the
Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of
this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future
Holders of this Note and of any Note issued upon the registration of transfer
hereof or in exchange herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such
consent or waiver is made upon this Note.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this
Note or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company,
which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on
this Note at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or currency, herein
prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the
Note Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the
office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in
form satisfactory to the Company and the Note Registrar duly executed by, the
Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one
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or more new Notes, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate
principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Notes are issuable only in registered form without coupons
in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. As provided in the
Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Notes are
exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount of Notes of a different
authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof
for all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company,
the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance
with the laws of the State of New York without regard to conflict of laws
principles thereof.
All terms used in this Note which are defined in the Indenture
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
SECTION 204. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
This is one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.
Dated: ___________________
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Trustee
By _______________________
Authorized Signatory
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SECTION 205. Form of Legend for Global Notes.
Every Global Note authenticated and delivered hereunder shall
bear a legend in substantially the following form:
THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER
REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF.
THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A NOTE REGISTERED, AND NO
TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY
PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED
CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.
ARTICLE THREE
The Notes
SECTION 301. Title and Terms.
The aggregate principal amount of Notes which may be
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is limited to $100,000,000,
except for Notes authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of,
or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to Section 304, 305, 306
or 906.
The Notes shall be known and designated as the "__% Notes Due
_______________, 2006" of the Company. Their Stated Maturity shall be
_______________, 2006, and they shall bear interest at the rate of ____% per
annum, from October __, 1996 or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to
which interest has been paid or duly provided for, as the case may be, payable
semi-annually on _____________ and ________, commencing ___________ ___, 1997,
until the principal thereof is paid or made available for payment.
The principal of and interest on the Notes shall be payable at
the office or agency of the Company in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York, maintained for such purpose and at any other office or agency maintained
by the Company for such purpose; provided, however, that, at the option of the
Company, payment of interest in respect of any Note that is not a Global Note
may be made by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as
such address shall appear in the Note Register.
The Notes shall not be redeemable prior to maturity and shall
not have the benefit of any sinking fund obligations.
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SECTION 302. Denominations.
The Notes shall be issuable only in registered form without
coupons and only in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
SECTION 303. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
The Notes shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its
Chairman of the Board, its Vice Chairman of the Board, its President or one of
its Vice Presidents, under its corporate seal reproduced thereon attested by its
Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these
officers on the Notes may be manual or facsimile.
Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of
individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind
the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to
hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Notes or did
not hold such offices at the date of such Notes.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and
delivery of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Notes executed by the
Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of such Notes; and the Trustee in accordance with
such Company Order shall authenticate and make available for delivery such
Notes as in this Indenture provided and not otherwise.
Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Note shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture
or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Note a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Trustee by manual signature, and such certificate upon any Note
shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been
duly authenticated and delivered hereunder. The Trustee shall have the right to
decline to authenticate and make available for delivery any Notes under this
Section if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that such action
may not lawfully be taken or if the Trustee in good faith shall determine that
such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to existing Holders.
SECTION 304. Temporary Notes.
Pending the preparation of definitive Notes, the Company may
execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and make
available for delivery, temporary Notes which are printed, lithographed,
typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination,
substantially of the tenor of the definitive Notes in lieu of which they are
issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other
variations as the officers executing such Notes may determine, as evidenced by
their execution of such Notes.
If temporary Notes are issued, the Company will cause
definitive Notes to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the
preparation of definitive Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for
definitive Notes upon surrender of the temporary Notes at any office or agency
of the Company designated pursuant to Section 1002, without charge to the
Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Notes the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery in exchange therefor a
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like principal amount of definitive Notes of authorized denominations. Until so
exchanged the temporary Notes shall in all respects be entitled to the same
benefits under this Indenture as definitive Notes.
SECTION 305. Registration, Registration of Transfer and Exchange; Global
Notes.
The Company shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust
Office of the Trustee a register (the register maintained in such office and in
any other office or agency designated pursuant to Section 1002 being herein
sometimes collectively referred to as the "Note Register") in which, subject to
such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for
the registration of Notes and of transfers of Notes. The Trustee is hereby
appointed "Note Registrar" for the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of
Notes as herein provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at an
office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 1002 for such
purpose, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
make available for delivery, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Notes of any authorized denominations and of a
like aggregate principal amount.
At the option of the Holder, Notes may be exchanged for other
Notes of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount,
upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever
any Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, the Notes which the
Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange
of Notes shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Notes
surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be
duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Note Registrar duly executed, by the Holder
thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of
transfer or exchange of Notes, but the Company may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, other than
exchanges pursuant to Section 304 or 906 not involving any transfer.
The Notes may be issued in whole or in part in the form of one
or more Global Notes. The provisions of Clauses (1), (2), (3) and (4) below
shall apply only to Global Notes.
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(1) Each Global Note authenticated under this Indenture shall
be registered in the name of the Depositary or a nominee thereof and
delivered to the Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor,
and each such Global Note shall constitute a single Note for all
purposes of this Indenture.
(2) Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture, no
Global Note may be exchanged in whole or in part for Notes registered,
and no transfer of a Global Note in whole or in part may be registered,
in the name of any Person other than the Depositary or a nominee
thereof unless (A) the Depositary (i) has notified the Company that it
is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Note
or (ii) has ceased to be a clearing agency registered under the
Exchange Act, (B) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee a
Company Order that such Global Note shall be so exchangeable or (C)
there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default.
(3) Subject to Clause (2) above, any exchange of a Global Note
for other Notes may be made in whole or in part, and all Notes issued
in exchange for a Global Note or any portion thereof shall be
registered in such names as the Depositary shall direct.
(4) Every Note authenticated and made available for delivery
upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a
Global Note or any portion thereof, whether pursuant to this Section,
Section 304, 306 or 906 or otherwise, shall be authenticated and
made available for delivery in the form of, and shall be, a Global
Note, unless such Note is registered in the name of a Person other
than the Depositary or a nominee thereof.
SECTION 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Notes.
If any mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee, the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery in exchange therefor a new Note of like tenor and principal amount and
bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i)
evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Note and
(ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them
and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the
Company or the Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
make available for delivery, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen
Note, a new Note of like tenor and principal amount and bearing a number not
contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note has
become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may,
instead of issuing a new Note, pay such Note.
Upon the issuance of any new Note under this Section, the
Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that
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may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including the fees
and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Note issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any
destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Note shall be at any time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to
all the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all
other Notes duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall
preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to
the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes.
SECTION 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
Interest on any Note which is payable, and is punctually paid
or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person
in whose name that Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the
close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.
Any interest on any Note which is payable, but is not
punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein
called "Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder
on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and
such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each
case, as provided in Clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted
Interest to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective
Predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on a Special
Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be
fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in
writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each
Note and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the
Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the
aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted
Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for
such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when
deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
to such Defaulted Interest as in this Clause provided. Thereupon the
Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such
Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days and not less
than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less
than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the
proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such
Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company,
shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest
and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage
prepaid, to each Holder at his address as it appears in the Note
Register, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date.
Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the
Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted
Interest shall be
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paid to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective
Predecessor Notes) are registered at the close of business on such
Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the
following Clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in
any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Notes may be listed, and upon such
notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by
the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this
Clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the
Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Note
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Note shall carry the rights to interest accrued and
unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such other Note.
SECTION 308. Persons Deemed Owners.
Prior to due presentment of a Note for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
may treat the Person in whose name such Note is registered as the owner of such
Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and (subject to
Section 307) interest on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever,
whether or not such Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor
any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.
SECTION 309. Cancellation.
All Notes surrendered for payment, registration of transfer or
exchange shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be
delivered to the Trustee and shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company may
at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously
authenticated and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any
manner whatsoever, and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the
Trustee. No Notes shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Notes
cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this
Indenture. All cancelled Notes held by the Trustee shall be disposed of as
directed by a Company Order, except that the Trustee shall not be required to
destroy such Notes.
SECTION 310. Computation of Interest.
Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
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ARTICLE FOUR
Satisfaction and Discharge
SECTION 401. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
This Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as
to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Notes herein
expressly provided for), and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the
Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture, when
(1) either
(A) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered
(other than (i) Notes which have been destroyed, lost or
stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in
Section 306 and (ii) Notes for whose payment money has
theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in
trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or
discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 1003) have
been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(B) all such Notes not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity
within one year,
and the Company, in the case of (i) or (ii) above, has
deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee in trust
an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire
indebtedness on such Notes not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation, for principal and interest to the
date of such deposit (in the case of Notes which have become
due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity, as the case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder by the Company; and
(3) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 607 and, if money shall
have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of Clause (1) of
this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 402 and the last
paragraph of Section 1003 shall survive.
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SECTION 402. Application of Trust Money.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section
1003, all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 401 shall be held
in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes and
this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent
(including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may
determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal and interest for
whose payment such money has been deposited with the Trustee.
ARTICLE FIVE
Remedies
SECTION 501. Events of Default.
"Event of Default", wherever used herein, means any one of the
following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it
shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant
to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation
of any administrative or governmental body):
(1) default in the payment of any interest upon any Note when
it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a
period of 30 days; or
(2) default in the payment of the principal of any Note at its
Maturity; or
(3) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or
warranty of the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or
warranty a default in whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in
this Section specifically dealt with), and continuance of such default
or breach for a period of 60 days after there has been given, by
registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the
Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal
amount of the Outstanding Notes a written notice specifying such
default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such
notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(4) the occurrence of an event of default under any bond,
debenture, note or other evidence of indebtedness for money borrowed by
the Company or any Designated Subsidiary, if (i) such default either
(A) results from the failure to pay the principal of any such
indebtedness at its stated maturity or (B) relates to an obligation
other than the obligation to pay the principal of such indebtedness at
its stated maturity and results in such indebtedness becoming or being
declared due and payable prior to the date on which it would otherwise
have become due and payable, (ii) the principal amount of such
indebtedness, together with the principal amount of any other such
indebtedness in default for failure to pay principal at its stated
maturity or the maturity of which has been so accelerated, aggregates
$15,000,000 or more at any one time outstanding and (iii) such
indebtedness is not discharged, or such acceleration is not rescinded
or annulled, within a period of 10 Business Days after
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there shall have been given, by registered or certified mail, to the
Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders
of at least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes a written
notice specifying such default and requiring the Company to cause such
indebtedness to be discharged or cause such acceleration to be
rescinded or annulled and stating that such notice is a "Notice of
Default" hereunder; or
(5) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises
of (A) a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an
involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable Federal or State
bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or (B) a
decree or order adjudging the Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or
approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company
under any applicable Federal or State law, or appointing a custodian,
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar
official of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or
ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the
continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other
decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive
days; or
(6) the commencement by the Company of a voluntary case or
proceeding under any applicable Federal or State bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or other similar law or of any other case or
proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by
it to the entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the
Company in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable
Federal or State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other
similar law or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case
or proceeding against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer
or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable
Federal or State law, or the consent by it to the filing of such
petition or to the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian,
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar
official of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or
the making by it of an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the
admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally
as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company in
furtherance of any such action.
SECTION 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default
specified in Section 501(5) or (6)) occurs and is continuing, then and in every
such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of
the Outstanding Notes may declare the principal of all the Notes to be due and
payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee
if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal and any
accrued interest shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of
Default specified in Section 501(5) or (6) occurs, the principal of any accrued
interest on the Notes then Outstanding shall ipso facto become immediately due
and payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or
any Holder.
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At any time after such a declaration of acceleration has been
made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been
obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of
a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes, by written notice to
the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its
consequences if
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue interest on all Notes,
(B) the principal of any Notes which have become due
otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and
interest thereon at the rate borne by the Notes,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is
lawful, interest upon overdue interest at the rate borne by
the Notes, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee
hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and
counsel;
and
(2) all Events of Default, other than the non-payment of the
principal of Notes which have become due solely by such declaration of
acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 513.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
SECTION 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
The Company covenants that if
(1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Note
when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues
for a period of 30 days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of any
Note at the Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the
Holders of such Notes, the whole amount then due and payable on such Notes for
principal and interest, and, to the extent that payment of such interest shall
be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal and on any overdue
interest, at the rate borne by the Notes, and, in addition thereto, such further
amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of
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collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee
may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights
of the Holders by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall
deem most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the
specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of
the exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
SECTION 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of any judicial proceeding relative to the Company (or
any other obligor upon the Notes), its property or its creditors, the Trustee
shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or
otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized under the Trust Indenture Act
in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such
proceeding. In particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and
receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims
and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee,
liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial
proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the
Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such
payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due it for
the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under
Section 607.
No provision of this Indenture shall be deemed to authorize
the Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any
Holder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition
affecting the Notes or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the
Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
SECTION 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the
Notes may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of
any of the Notes or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto,
and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own
name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, after
provision for the payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes in respect of which such judgment
has been recovered.
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SECTION 506. Application of Money Collected.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article
shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the
Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal
or interest, upon presentation of the Notes and the notation thereon of the
payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under
Section 607; and
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for
principal of and interest on the Notes in respect of which or for the
benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without
preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and
payable on such Notes for principal and interest, respectively.
SECTION 507. Limitation on Suits.
No Holder of any Note shall have any right to institute any
proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the
appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the
Trustee of a continuing Event of Default;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of
the Outstanding Notes shall have made written request to the Trustee to
institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own
name as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee
reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be
incurred in compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such
proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has
been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes;
it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders shall have any
right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of
this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders,
or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders
or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein
provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all the Holders.
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SECTION 508. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and Interest.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the
Holder of any Note shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to
receive payment of the principal of and (subject to Section 307) interest on
such Note on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Note and to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such rights shall
not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If the Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to
enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to
the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any
determination in such proceeding, the Company, the Trustee and the Holders shall
be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and
thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue
as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
SECTION 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement
or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes in the last paragraph
of Section 306, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the
Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or
remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be
cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder or
now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or
employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the
concurrent assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Holder of any
Note to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default shall
impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of
Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by this Article
or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time,
and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders, as
the case may be.
SECTION 512. Control by Holders.
The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Notes shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising
any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, provided that
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(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of
law or with this Indenture, and
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
SECTION 513. Waiver of Past Defaults.
The Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Notes may on behalf of the Holders of all the Notes waive any
past default hereunder and its consequences, except a default
(1) in the payment of the principal of or interest on any
Note, or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under
Article Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
Holder of each Outstanding Note affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and
any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for
every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 514. Undertaking for Costs.
In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under
this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, a court may require any party litigant in
such suit to file an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, including
reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, and may assess costs against any such
party litigant, in the manner and to the extent provided in the Trust Indenture
Act; provided, that neither this Section nor the Trust Indenture Act shall be
deemed to authorize any court to require such an undertaking or to make such an
assessment in any suit instituted by the Trustee, the Company, a Holder pursuant
to Section 508 hereof, or Holders of more than 10% in principal amount of the
then Outstanding Notes.
SECTION 515. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do
so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner
whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law
wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the
covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent
that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of
any such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the
execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit
the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
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ARTICLE SIX
The Trustee
SECTION 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) The duties and responsibilities of the Trustee shall be as
set forth herein and as provided by the Trust Indenture Act. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or
risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance
of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its rights or
powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such
funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably
assured to it.
(b) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default,
the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or
obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee.
(c) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in
it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their
exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the
conduct of his own affairs.
(d) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to
relieve the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own
negligent failure to act, or its own wilful misconduct, except that:
(1) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the
effect of Subsection (a) of this Section;
(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer,
unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent
in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any
action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith
in accordance with the direction of the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes
relating to the time, method and place of conducting any
proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee,
under this Indenture.
(e) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every
provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability
of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of
this Section.
SECTION 602. Notice of Defaults.
The Trustee shall give the Holders notice of any default
hereunder as and to the extent provided by the Trust Indenture Act; provided,
however, that in the case of any default of the character specified in Section
501(3), no such notice to Holders shall be given until at least 30 days after
the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term "default"
means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become,
an Event of Default.
SECTION 603. Certain Rights of Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 601:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent,
order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other
paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed
or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein
shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order
and any resolution of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently
evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the
Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established
prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the
Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may,
in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers'
Certificate;
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(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and
the written advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be
full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any action
taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in
reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any
of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request
or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless
such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be
incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation
into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness
or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may
make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters
as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such
further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the
books, records and premises of the Company, at the sole cost of the
Company, personally or by agent or attorney, and shall incur no
liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigations;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or
through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible
for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney
appointed with due care by it hereunder; and
(h) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken,
suffered, or omitted to be taken by it in good faith and reasonably
believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or rights or
powers conferred upon it by this Indenture.
SECTION 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Notes.
The recitals contained herein and in the Notes, except the
Trustee's certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of
the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness.
The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this
Indenture or of the Notes. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the use or
application by the Company of Notes or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 605. May Hold Notes.
The Trustee, any Paying Agent, any Note Registrar or any other
agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the
owner or pledgee of Notes and, subject to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise
deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee,
Paying Agent, Note Registrar or such other agent.
SECTION 606. Money Held in Trust.
Money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee
shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder
except as otherwise agreed with the Company.
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SECTION 607. Compensation and Reimbursement.
The Company agrees
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time compensation for
all services rendered by it hereunder as such parties may agree in
writing (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of
law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to
reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in
accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including the
reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its
agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance
as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless
against, any loss, liability or expense including taxes (other than
taxes based upon, measured by or determined by the income of the
Trustee) incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising
out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this
trust, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any
claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of
any of its powers or duties hereunder.
The Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Notes as to all
property and funds held by it hereunder for any amount owing it or any
predecessor Trustee pursuant to this Section 607, except with respect to funds
held in trust for the benefit of the Holders of particular Notes.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in
connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 501(5) or Section
501(6), the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its
counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute
expenses of administration under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law.
The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination
of this Indenture.
SECTION 608. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests.
If the Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest
within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall either
eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by,
and subject to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Indenture.
SECTION 609. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be
a Person that is eligible pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act to act as such and
has a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000. If such Person
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes
of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Person shall be deemed
to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of
condition so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in
the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
SECTION 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no
appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become
effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee under
Section 611.
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(b) The Trustee may resign at any time by giving written
notice thereof to the Company. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor
Trustee shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the
giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time by Act of the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes, delivered to
the Trustee and to the Company. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor
Trustee shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after
delivery of such Act of the Holders, the resigning Trustee may petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 608 after
written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a
bona fide Holder of a Note for at least six months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609
and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company
or by any such Holder, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the
Trustee, or (ii) subject to Section 514, any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Note for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all
others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee. If an
instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not have been delivered to
the Trustee within 30 days after the date of such Board Resolution or any order
or decree of such court removing the Trustee, as the case may be, the resigning
Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of
a successor Trustee.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become
incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for
any cause, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a
successor Trustee. If, within one year after such resignation, removal or
incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee shall be
appointed by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Notes delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the
successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such
appointment, become the successor Trustee and supersede the successor Trustee
appointed by the Company. If no successor Trustee shall have been so appointed
by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter
provided, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Note for at least six
months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any
court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each
removal of the Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee to all
Holders in the manner provided in Section 106. Each notice shall include the
name of the successor Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
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SECTION 611. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
Every successor Trustee appointed hereunder shall execute,
acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument
accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the
retiring Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any
further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights,
powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on request of the
Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of
its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor
Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly
assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money
held by such retiring Trustee hereunder. Upon request of any such successor
Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and
certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights,
powers and trusts.
No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at
the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and
eligible under this Article.
SECTION 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a
party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate
trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder,
provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this
Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the
part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Notes shall have been
authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor
by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt
such authentication and deliver the Notes so authenticated with the same effect
as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Notes.
SECTION 613. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the
Company (or any other obligor upon the Notes), the Trustee shall be subject to
the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims
against the Company (or any such other obligor).
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ARTICLE SEVEN
Holders' Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company
SECTION 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the
Trustee
(a) semi-annually, not more than 15 days after each Regular
Record Date, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably
require, of the names and addresses of the Holders as of such Regular
Record Date, and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a
list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days
prior to the time such list is furnished;
excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its
capacity as Note Registrar.
SECTION 702. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most
recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 701 and the names
and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Note
Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section 701 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders
with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Notes, and the
corresponding rights and duties of the Trustee, shall be as provided by the
Trust Indenture Act.
(c) Every Holder of Notes, by receiving and holding the same,
agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee
nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of any
disclosure of information as to names and addresses of Holders made pursuant to
the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 703. Reports by Trustee.
(a) The Trustee shall transmit to Holders such reports
concerning the Trustee and its actions under this Indenture as may be required
pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided
pursuant thereto.
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(b) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon
which the Notes are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The
Company will notify the Trustee when the Notes are listed on any stock exchange.
SECTION 704. Reports by Company.
The Company shall file with the Trustee and the Commission,
and transmit to Holders, such information, documents and other reports, and such
summaries thereof, as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the
times and in the manner provided pursuant to such Act; provided that any such
information, documents or reports required to be filed with the Commission
pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act shall be filed with the
Trustee within 15 days after the same is so required to be filed with the
Commission.
ARTICLE EIGHT
Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease
SECTION 801. Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms.
The Company shall not, in a single transaction or a series of related
transactions (a) consolidate with or merge with or into any other Person, (b)
sell, assign, transfer or lease, or otherwise dispose of, all or substantially
all of its properties and assets to any Person or group of affiliated Persons,
or (c) permit any of its Subsidiaries to enter into any such transaction or
transactions if such transaction or transactions entered into by such Subsidiary
or Subsidiaries, in the aggregate, would result in a sale, assignment, transfer,
lease or disposal of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of
the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis to any other Person or
group of Affiliated Persons, unless:
(1) in a transaction in which the Company
consolidates with or merges with or into another Person and is
not the surviving entity of such consolidation or merger or in
which the Company directly or indirectly sells, assigns,
transfers, leases or otherwise disposes of all or
substantially all of its properties and assets as an entirety,
(a) the Person formed by such consolidation or with or into
which the Company is merged or the Person that acquires by
sale, assignment, transfer, lease or other disposition all or
substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company
as an entirety (for purposes of this Article Eight, a
"Successor Company") shall be a corporation, partnership or
trust, shall be organized and validly existing under the laws
of the United States of America, any State thereof or the
District of Columbia and (b) the Successor Company shall
expressly assume by an indenture supplemental hereto executed
and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the
Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of
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and interest on all the Notes and the performance of every
covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company to be
performed or observed;
(2) immediately after giving effect to such
transaction, no Event of Default, and no event which, after
notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of
Default, shall have occurred and be continuing;
(3) if, as a result of any such transaction, Capital
Stock of any Designated Subsidiary (or any Subsidiary of the
Company having direct or indirect Control of any Designated
Subsidiary) would become subject to a Lien prohibited by the
covenant in Section 1008(a), the Company or the Successor
Company shall have secured the Notes as required by such
covenant; and
(4) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating
that such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer or
lease and, if a supplemental indenture is required in
connection with such transaction, such supplemental indenture
comply with this Article and that all conditions precedent
herein provided for relating to such transaction have been
complied with.
SECTION 802. Successor Substituted.
Upon any consolidation of the Company with, or merger of the
Company into, any other Person or any sale, assignment, transfer or lease of the
properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety in accordance
with Section 801, the successor Person formed by such consolidation or into
which the Company is merged or the transferee or lessee to which such sale,
assignment, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for,
and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with
the same effect as if such successor Person had been named as the Company
herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease, the predecessor Person
shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the
Notes.
ARTICLE NINE
Supplemental Indentures
SECTION 901. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when
authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to
time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form
satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
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(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the
Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of
the Company herein and in the Notes; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of
the Holders, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon
the Company; or
(3) to add additional Events of Default; or
(4) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any
provision herein which may be defective or inconsistent with any other
provision herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to
matters or questions arising under this Indenture, provided that such
action pursuant to this Clause (4) shall not adversely affect the
interests of the Holders in any material respect.
SECTION 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Notes, by Act of said Holders delivered to
the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution,
and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto
for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or
eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any
manner the rights of the Holders under this Indenture; provided, however, that
no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Note affected thereby,
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any
installment of interest on, any Note, or reduce the principal amount
thereof, or the rate of interest thereon, or change the place of
payment where, or the coin or currency in which, the principal of any
Note or interest thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute
suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after the Stated
Maturity thereof, or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the
Outstanding Notes, the consent of whose Holders is required for any
such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is
required for any waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this
Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences)
provided for in this Indenture, or
(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section or Section
513, except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain
other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without
the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this
Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture,
but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
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SECTION 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
In executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by,
any supplemental indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications
thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled
to receive, and (subject to Section 601) shall be fully protected in relying
upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental
indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but
shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which
affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or
otherwise.
SECTION 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this
Article, this Indenture shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such
supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture for all purposes; and
every Holder of Notes theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered
hereunder shall be bound thereby.
SECTION 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act.
Every supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article
shall conform to the requirements of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 906. Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures.
Notes authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by
the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter
provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine,
new Notes so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the
Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the
Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for
Outstanding Notes.
ARTICLE TEN
Covenants
SECTION 1001. Payment of Principal and Interest.
The Company will duly and punctually pay the principal of and
interest on the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes and this
Indenture.
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SECTION 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company will maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The
City of New York, an office or agency where Notes may be presented or
surrendered for payment, where Notes may be surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Company will give
prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any change in the
location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to
maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee
with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands
may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the
Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more
other offices or agencies (in or outside the Borough of Manhattan, The City of
New York) where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all such
purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however,
that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company
of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan,
The City of New York, for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written
notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in
the location of any such other office or agency.
SECTION 1003. Money for Note Payments to Be Held in Trust.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent,
it will, on or before each due date of the principal of or interest on any of
the Notes, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal or interest so becoming due until
such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein
provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to
act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents, it
will, at or prior to 10:00 a.m. in the place of business of the Paying Agent on
each due date of the principal of or interest on any Notes, deposit with a
Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such amount, such sum to be held as
provided by the Trust Indenture Act, and (unless such Paying Agent is the
Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure
so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent other than the
Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying
Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section,
that such Paying Agent will (i) comply with the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent and (ii) during the continuance
of any default by the Company (or any other obligor upon the Notes) in the
making of any payment in respect of the Notes, upon the written request of the
Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying
Agent as such.
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The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or
by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in
trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee
upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or
such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee,
such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to
such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or
then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of the principal of or
interest on any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal
or interest has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company
Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust;
and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor,
look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee
or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the
Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the
Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment,
may at the expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper
published in the English language, customarily published on each Business Day
and of general circulation in The City of New York, notice that such money
remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be
less than 30 days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of
such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
SECTION 1004. Statement by Officers as to Default.
The Company will deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after
the end of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an
Officers' Certificate, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the
signers thereof the Company is in default in the performance and observance of
any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this Indenture (without regard to
any period of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if the
Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and
status thereof of which they may have knowledge.
SECTION 1005. Corporate Existence.
Subject to Article Eight, the Company will do or cause to be
done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its
corporate existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; provided,
however, that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or
franchise if the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation
thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and
that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the
Holders.
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SECTION 1006. Maintenance of Properties.
The Company will cause all properties used or useful in the
conduct of its business or the business of any Subsidiary to be maintained and
kept in good condition, repair and working order and supplied with all necessary
equipment and will cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals,
replacements, betterments and improvements thereof, all as in the judgment of
the Company may be necessary so that the business carried on in connection
therewith may be properly and advantageously conducted at all times; provided,
however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the Company from
discontinuing the operation or maintenance of any of such properties if such
discontinuance is, in the judgment of the Company, desirable in the conduct of
its business or the business of any Subsidiary and not disadvantageous in any
material respect to the Holders.
SECTION 1007. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.
The Company will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or
discharged, before the same shall become delinquent, (1) all taxes, assessments
and governmental charges levied or imposed upon the Company or any Subsidiary or
upon the income, profits or property of the Company or any Subsidiary, and (2)
all lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might by
law become a lien upon the property of the Company or any Subsidiary; provided,
however, that the Company shall not be required to pay or discharge or cause to
be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge or claim whose amount,
applicability or validity is being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings.
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SECTION 1008. Limitations on Liens and Dispositions of Capital Stock of a
Designated Subsidiary.
So long as any Notes shall remain Outstanding:
(a) the Company shall not, and shall not permit any
Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, create, issue, assume,
incur or guarantee any indebtedness for money borrowed which
is secured by a Lien on any of the present or future Capital
Stock of a Designated Subsidiary (or any Subsidiary of the
Company having direct or indirect Control of any Designated
Subsidiary), which Capital Stock is directly or indirectly
owned by the Company, unless the Notes and, if the Company so
elects, any other indebtedness of the Company ranking at least
pari passu with the Notes, shall be secured equally and
ratably with (or prior to) such other secured indebtedness for
money borrowed so long as it is outstanding; and
(b) The Company shall not, and shall not permit any
Subsidiary to, sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any
shares of Capital Stock of any Designated Subsidiary (or of
any corporation having direct or indirect Control of any
Designated Subsidiary) except (subject to Article Eight) for
(i) a sale, transfer or other disposition of any Capital Stock
of any Designated Subsidiary to a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of
the Company; (ii) a sale, transfer or other disposition of the
entire Capital Stock of any Designated Subsidiary for at least
fair value (as determined by the Board of Directors acting in
good faith); or (iii) a sale, transfer or other disposition of
the Capital Stock of any Designated Subsidiary for at least
fair value (as determined by the Board of Directors acting in
good faith), if, after giving effect thereto, the Company and
its Subsidiaries would own more than 80% of the issued and
outstanding Voting Stock of such Designated Subsidiary.
SECTION 1009. Waiver of Certain Covenants.
The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with
any covenant or condition set forth in Sections 1006 to 1008, inclusive, if
before the time for such compliance the Holders of at least a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Notes shall, by Act of such Holders, either
waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such
covenant or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such
covenant or condition except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such
waiver shall become effective, the obligations of the Company and the duties of
the Trustee in respect of any such covenant or condition shall remain in full
force and effect.
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ARTICLE ELEVEN
Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance
SECTION 1101. Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
The Company may elect, at its option at any time, to have
Section 1102 or Section 1103 applied to the Outstanding Notes upon compliance
with the conditions set forth below in this Article.
SECTION 1102. Defeasance and Discharge.
Upon the Company's exercise of its option to have this Section
applied to the Outstanding Notes, the Company shall be deemed to have been
discharged from its obligations with respect to the Outstanding Notes as
provided in this Section on and after the date the conditions set forth in
Section 1104 are satisfied (hereinafter called "Defeasance"). For this purpose,
such Defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and
discharged the entire indebtedness represented by such Notes and to have
satisfied all its other obligations under such Notes and this Indenture insofar
as such Notes are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company,
shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), subject to the
following, which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged
hereunder: (1) the rights of Holders of such Notes to receive, solely from the
trust fund described in Section 1104 and as more fully set forth in such
Section, payments in respect of the principal of and interest on such Notes when
payments are due, (2) the Company's obligations with respect to such Notes under
Sections 304, 305, 306, 1002 and 1003, (3) the rights, powers, trusts, duties
and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (4) this Article. Subject to
compliance with this Article, the Company may exercise its option (if any) to
have this Section applied to the Outstanding Notes notwithstanding the prior
exercise of its option to have Section 1103 applied to such Notes.
SECTION 1103. Covenant Defeasance.
Upon the Company's exercise of its option to have this Section
applied to the Outstanding Notes, the Company shall be released from its
obligations under Section 801, Sections 1006 through 1008, inclusive, and any
covenants provided pursuant to Section 901(2) for the benefit of the Holders of
the Notes and the occurrence of any event specified in Sections 501(3) (with
respect to any of Sections 1006 through 1008, inclusive, and any such covenants
provided pursuant to Section 901(2)) and 501(4) shall be deemed not to be or
result in an Event of Default on and after the date the conditions set forth in
Section 1104 are satisfied (hereinafter called "Covenant Defeasance"). For this
purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that the Company may omit to comply with
and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set
forth in any such specified Section, whether directly or indirectly by reason of
any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or by reason of any reference
in any such Section to any other provision herein or in any other document, but
the remainder of this Indenture and such Notes shall be unaffected thereby.
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SECTION 1104. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
The following shall be the conditions to the application of
Section 1102 or Section 1103 to the Outstanding Notes:
(1) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to
be deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee which satisfies the
requirements contemplated by Section 609 and agrees to comply with the
provisions of this Article applicable to it) as trust funds in trust
for the purpose of making the following payments, specifically pledged
as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefits of the Holders
of such Notes, (A) money in an amount, or (B) U.S. Government
Obligations which through the scheduled payment of principal and
interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will
provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment,
money in an amount, or (C) a combination thereof, in each case
sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of
independent public accountants expressed in a written certification
thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall
be applied by the Trustee (or any such other qualifying trustee) to pay
and discharge, the principal of and interest on the Outstanding Notes
on the respective Stated Maturities, in accordance with the terms of
this Indenture and such Notes. As used herein, "U.S. Government
Obligation" means (x) any security which is (i) a direct obligation of
the United States of America for the payment of which the full faith
and credit of the United States of America is pledged or (ii) an
obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an
agency or instrumentality of the United States of America the payment
of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit
obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case (i)
or (ii), is not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer
thereof, and (y) any depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in
Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) as custodian
with respect to any U.S. Government Obligation which is specified in
Clause (x) above and held by such bank for the account of the holder of
such depositary receipt, or with respect to any specific payment of
principal of or interest on any U.S. Government Obligation which is so
specified and held, provided that (except as required by law) such
custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount
payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount
received by the custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligation
or the specific payment of principal or interest evidenced by such
depositary receipt.
(2) In the event of an election to have Section 1102 apply to
the Outstanding Notes, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee
an Opinion of Counsel stating that (A) the Company has received from,
or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling
or (B) since the date of this Indenture, there has been a change in the
applicable Federal income tax law, in either case (A) or (B) to the
effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the
Holders of such Notes will not recognize gain or loss for Federal
income tax purposes as a result of the deposit, Defeasance and
discharge to be effected with respect to such Notes and will be subject
to Federal income tax on the same amount, in the same manner and at the
same times as would be the case if such deposit, Defeasance and
discharge were not to occur.
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(3) In the event of an election to have Section 1103 apply to
the Outstanding Notes, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee
an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders of such Notes will
not recognize gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result
of the deposit and Covenant Defeasance to be effected with respect to
such Notes and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same
amount, in the same manner and at the same times as would be the case
if such deposit and Covenant Defeasance were not to occur.
(4) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate to the effect that the Notes, if then listed on
any securities exchange, will be delisted as a result of such deposit.
(5) No event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or
both would become, an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing at the time of such deposit or, with regard to any such
event specified in Sections 501(5) and (6), at any time on or prior to
the 90th day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that
this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until after such 90th
day).
(6) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not cause the
Trustee to have a conflicting interest within the meaning of the Trust
Indenture Act (assuming all Notes are in default within the meaning of
such Act).
(7) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in
a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any other
agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it
is bound.
(8) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion
of Counsel to the effect that such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
shall not result in the trust arising from such deposit constituting an
investment company within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended, unless such trust shall be registered under such Act
or exempt from registration thereunder.
(9) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent with respect to such Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance have been complied with.
SECTION 1105. Deposited Money and U.S. Government Obligations to Be Held in
Trust; Miscellaneous Provisions.
Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section
1003, all money and U.S. Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof)
deposited with the Trustee or other qualifying trustee (solely for purposes of
this Section and Section 1106, the Trustee and any such other trustee are
referred to collectively as the "Trustee") pursuant to Section 1104 in respect
of the Outstanding Notes shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in
accordance with the provisions of the Notes and this Indenture, to the payment,
either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its
own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Notes, of
all sums due and to become due
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thereon in respect of principal and interest, but money so held in trust need
not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any
tax, fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government
Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 1104 or the principal and interest
received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which
by law is for the account of the Holders of Outstanding Notes.
Anything in this Article to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company
Request any money or U.S. Government Obligations held by it as provided in
Section 1104 with respect to the Outstanding Notes which, in the opinion of a
nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a
written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the
amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to effect the
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, as the case may be, with respect to such
Notes.
SECTION 1106. Reinstatement.
If the Trustee or the Paying Agent is unable to apply any
money in accordance with this Article with respect to the Outstanding Notes by
reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority
enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the
obligations under this Indenture and such Notes from which the Company has been
discharged or released pursuant to Section 1102 or 1103 shall be revived and
reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this Article with
respect to such Notes, until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is
permitted to apply all money held in trust pursuant to Section 1105 with respect
to such Notes in accordance with this Article; provided, however, that if the
Company makes any payment of principal of or interest on any such Note following
such reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the
rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment from the money so
held in trust.
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This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts,
each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such
counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Indenture to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
THE PMI GROUP, INC.
By:_____________________________________
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
By:_____________________________________
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